Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven years of court business since the South Braintree murder. Ought we not as citizens, unable to follow in detail the enormous mass of this argument, respect the work of our courts and be satisfied with this sentence...
...part I am not satisfied: I feel impelled to acknowledge that I believe Sacco and Vanzetti as innocent of that murder...
...Massachusetts because the courts refuse to hear relevant evidence. The excluded evidence in this case is such, I verily believe, as would convince four men out of five, if they could, hear it with unblassed minds, that Sacco and Vanzetti had nothing whatever to do with the Braintree murder...
...appalling thing to see a great State in the full exercise of its faculties, steer deliberately toward an act of profound and irrevocable injustice. Judicial murder has often been committed by mistake, by inadvertence, or through an accidental accumulation of misleading circumstancial evidence. There is no perfect justice in human affairs. But this is not a case of stumbling in the dark while trying to see: it is a case of wilfully closing eyes to the light. It is not necessary that justice should be always achieved; it is necessary that we have the will to achieve justice...
...decided on the evidence or on race and class prejudice. Dreyfus was convicted of high treason, not because he committed high treason, but because he was a Jew; and there are many people in the present case who believe that Sacco and Vanzetti have been convicted and sentenced for murder, not because they committed murder, but because they are radicals...